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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Report: FreeBSD on 386SX20 Date: 18 Apr 1997 20:08:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5j8kch$5mt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <E8n4MA.HMJ@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39327 stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth) wrote: > Today I installed FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 on an old IBM Laptop L40SX. > This system has 6MB RAM, 120MB Disk, 386SX20 CPU. Hah, i should have shown you my old notebook when i've been visiting you in Mainz recently. :) It's a 386/sx16 with 5 MB (but it's a lucky machine with a 387). Still served me as my mail reader in the hotel, albeit the `uuxqt' ran for about half an hour for 50 or 70 messages. Still, it runs the dumb 16450 UART at 38400 bps without a hitch, and can use up to 75 % of the bandwidth at 115200 bps (the remaining 25 % are flow- controlled). > The installation itself was very slow (no CoProcessor!). Took > about 2h to install: bin, doc, manpages, src (ssmail.cfg), but > went on without any problems. Btw., just for grins, i recently installed a FreeBSD 2.2 on a machine with only 2 MB of RAM, mainly for testing. Of course, this was not using sysinstall, but a custom boot floppy (and the fixit floppy). The two very first steps after booting were `disklabel', and `swapon'. ;-) FreeBSD now basically runs in 2 MB, but it is always in danger of going thrashing. It didn't survive the /etc/daily run... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)